For Amethyst

My little girl…. Let me tell you a little story, about a little gem. This gem was made on an "insignificant" planet called "Earth", she was left alone in her place of birth, forgotten, with no purpose whatsoever. Her name was Amethyst, she was 4 feet tall and a little chubby, confused, she stayed in her little hole for decades waiting for something or someone to find her. The story of this little girl was a sad one, created for war purposes, with countless clones and a destiny of suffering; then a light in her shadowy path was seen, the girl met four gems, and these gems were going to change her life forever.

With a team and a purpose for her existence, she joined on a mission to rescue gems from a curse which they couldn`t fight by themselves, and as the team grew closer to her, the leader noticed her wild personality, always finding the bright side on everything, even though sometimes she would be a little bit rough.

The leader saw two sides of her that caught her attention; one part was her home world side, with instincts for battle and her unnatural force, even for a gem one could not develop such strength in that amount of time, and then there was her… "Earth" part, she possessed some qualities that the other gems didn´t have.

The leader had a theory that Amethyst was more humanlike than the others because she was made on Earth; Rose, Pearl, Sapphire, and Ruby could not understand Amethyst at all because even though she was a gem like them, in some way, she was different and this caused difficulties for her and her teammates (especially Pearl).

Amethyst was happy, with a wonderful family and a wonderful planet… but she still had so many questions; why was she in that hole? Why did no one found her before? Why did the home world gems leaved her behind?

The leader knew the answer to every single one of those questions…. And she didn´t tell her… she only wanted to protect her from the truth…. And when the time demanded it, she had to know everything; the truth of why home world used our planet for their war. The truth of why the leader stayed and fought for Earth, but the truth that hurt her most was the one that revealed her who she really was.

A clone, one of many Amethysts who were going to be used as soldiers to conquer other planets, and she found out that no gem was a single of her kind, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire…. They all where only one of the many others that possessed the same bodies, the same weapons and the same gems.

In pure rage she fled to her little hole once more, hid until her family found her. With tears in her eyes she saw the leader come close to her but didn´t run, because she didn´t know where to go, and she knew that the leader wouldn´t hurt her again.

The leader sat beside her and talked to her about why they choosed to take her home; she talked to her about home world, about how cold and selfish they were, and why she was left behind.

Since the very beginning, she was different; she was not like the other Amethysts and caused problems often. She could not follow orders and did not stand for her fellow soldiers to be treated like garbage; she tried to encourage them to defend themselves and the others as well.

Seeing this, the home world gems decided that she was not only a pain in their butt, but a problem for the discipline of their army. The Home world gems decided to punish the gem torturing her until she would retreat to her gem, and as soon as she did, the home world gems went to war and leaved the planet.

Getting back to her physical for the gem found herself alone, and with no memory of what happened; only knowing that nobody would come for her.

The gem was wondering why the leader was telling this to her. And the reason was that she was not the only "defective one" but the others as well, her teammates, each single one of them was the different from their kind, the Ruby and Sapphire kind could not stand the gems` love and rejected them; and Pearl was the only one of her kind that had an affection to one of the oldest type of gem… a Rose Quartz…..

And not only us but all of the gems that fought alongside us as the crystal gems. And the leader begged her to forgive herself from her past, because it wasn`t her fault at all.

Back at home she met the humans, and saw a little part of herself in every one of them. And the leader saw how much Amethyst saw herself as a human because like them she was imperfect and in some way she wanted to be a human as well she even copied a hair style from a normal man that then would become her best friend.

I´m sorry I will leave you alone Amethyst, but I know you see what I see in humans, and that is why I trust you to take care of Steven, because I know you won`t see Steven only as a normal human or as myself, but also as yourself, and if something happens to him you will suffer deeply and knowing you, that is not going to happen.

I trust you Amethyst, and I know you will continue in favor of your "Earth side".

Take care of everyone.

I love you Amethyst.

Rose.